Indonesia Program

Northern Sumatra Biodiversity Corridor

Outcomes: Saving 4.5 M Ha of Sumatra’s last biodiversity stronghold

Technical support for developing sustainable economic alternatives, such as ecotourism in Batang Gadis National Park including product development, market linkage, policy development

Siberut Island Conservation

Outcomes: Saving 200K hectares high endemism, fragile island ecosystem thru conservation concession

Develop integrated planning for the Mentawai Islands Ecotourism; bringing benefit of tourism to local community

GEDEPAHALA CorridorOutcomes: Securing 100K Ha habitat for Javan threatened species

Established Nature and Education tourism

Bird’s Head Seascape

Marine tourism development (entrance fees, zonation, streamlining licensing, buoys)

Outcomes : Saving 4.5 M Ha of the World’s “Epicenter of Marine Biodiversity”

Outcomes: Effective protection and Effective protection and sustainable management of sustainable management of 362.605 Ha key marine and 362.605 Ha key marine and terrestrial biodiversity areas of terrestrial biodiversity areas of Togean Islands Marine National Togean Islands Marine National ParkPark

TOGEAN ISLAND NATIONAL TOGEAN ISLAND NATIONAL PARKPARK

Facilitation to improving transportation options to the Togeans from other regional tourist centers; linking community initiatives to broad-scale tourism development; and integrating ecotourism concepts into regional development policy

CI Indonesia Strategy:Promote Community Based Ecotourism

General Challenge

Capacity of stakeholders (government agency, private sectors and local community) to implement ecotourism (putting theory into practice) How do we know that we implement ecotourism and not just

tourism to natural areas? What criteria and indicator is used to show significant impact

from tourism to conservation outcomes? How to make sure that ecotourism can contribute to improving

management of protected area (e.g. by contributing part of tourism revenue to management cost of protected area)

How to minimize impacts of ecotourism to ecosystem, culture and traditional economic practices?

Involvement and participation of local community to tourism project Global and local security issues

Challenges for CI Indonesia

Lack of in-house expertise and resources

CI Indonesia restructuring into CBC (exiting from GEDEPAHALA and Togean NP programs)

Terima Kasih

Muchas Gracias

Thank You